Hogs’ season ends in NCAA Regional

Hogs’ season ends in NCAA Regional

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas. – The 2024 Arkansas Razorback baseball season has come to an end.

No. 5 Arkansas (44-16) concluded the campaign with a 6-3 loss against SEMO (36-26) in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional Sunday afternoon at Baum-Walker Stadium. With 44 wins on the year, the Razorbacks finished with 40 or more wins for the seventh consecutive season to remain the winningest college baseball program in the country since 2017.

Peyton Holt and Parker Rowland each homered for the Hogs in Sunday’s season-ending loss. Holt went yard for the second game in a row and collected a team-leading two hits to finish the season with a .322/.412/.507 slash line, while Rowland turned in a team-leading two RBI thanks to his two-run homer – his first of the season – in the ninth inning.

On the mound, Razorback starter Gage Wood tossed three innings of four-run ball with four strikeouts. In relief, Jake Faherty (2.0 IP, 1 R, 4 SO), Will McEntire (1.2 IP, 1 R, 3 SO), Stone Hewlett (0.1 IP, 1 SO), Christian Foutch (0.2 IP) and Koty Frank (0.1 IP) combined to work the game’s final five frames and limit the Redhawks to just two runs.

Foutch finished his sophomore campaign with a 1-0 record, a miniscule 0.81 ERA and 20 strikeouts in 22.1 innings over 20 appearances. The Littleton, Colorado, native’s 0.81 ERA is the lowest by a Razorback pitcher to appear in at least 20 percent of the team’s games since Kevin Kopps’ 0.90 ERA in 89.2 innings over 33 appearances in the 2021 season.

SEMO kicked off Sunday’s scoring in the bottom half of the first with a run before tacking on three in the fourth to open a 4-0 advantage. Holt’s solo shot in the top half of the fifth put Arkansas on the board, but it would not be enough.

The Redhawks answered with a run in the bottom of the fifth and added another in the seventh, taking a 6-1 lead into the eighth. The Hogs put runners on second and third with no outs in the top of the eighth but failed to score.

Rowland’s two-run blast came with one out in the ninth and cut Arkansas’ deficit to three, but it was too little too late. SEMO would retire the next two batters to secure a 6-3 win and eliminate the Razorbacks from postseason play.

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